Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-04
Fashions DEGREES for the Coming
Season in Beauty's Do
main.
Reptiiian COuceits in JeWelry-Gilding
Fine LaGR-DtTiCe in
skirts.
short Talk on 9Ieeyes- Gossip with T.
Frtond-Househoh Matters
SOtcs-Recipes-

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worn when the April days are indeed
here. The New York merchants, ever on
| the alert, have begun to display spring
goods, and the writer's on fashion are
giving Us some predatory notes. The
lighter fabrics in wool Will of course be
first in demand, and are to De found in
the most delicate of shades. Gray Of
pinkish cast, Sucn es WAS known years
ago as "ashes Of roses" is revived and is
universally admired. In ginghams are
found the old-tashloned laVeLuarS aud
bluffs. There is pretty new cloth called
! Angola, Of wool slightly mixed with COT
! ton, which is admirable for travelling and
! the seaside, as it does not crinkle. Pom
pgdOur designs in both sateens and wool
| ems are meeting with much favor, and are
well adapted for the polanaise which is
growing in popularity. The opinion of
dealers is that embroidered robes will be
! quite as popular as last year, and there
is an abundance and luXurlGnce in the de-
signs that show no statement IN demand.
From all the notes gathered, wash fab
RIGS will be sought for, and all our manu-
lecturers are striving by progressive ex-
| cellence to give them durable popular
ity.
There is &n increasing complaint
against foreign importations of costumes.
In last weeks article duplication OF
dresses WAS spoken of, and now these
same society people say that unsaleabla
| costumes which have been exhibited for
year or two, and seen by the travelled.
are palmed off on the unwary new people
who have money, and who order from
these INSCRIPTIONS dealers. All the bet
ter for American talent that our
women have grown fastidious
| is but a spur to the genius of
native costumers who can, if encouraged
| by these kind OF patrons, soon rival trans
| Atlantic skill. That American women
| have improved in taste there can be no
| question, and from studying their figures
and COmple Xions nave become critical is
well attested by the anxious care Of dress
makers to satisfy their demands, and their
insistance on harmony of color or artistic
contrast, is an excellent school for the
education of the genuine modiste.
Have any OF the dear girls noticed q
peculiar sway in the most fashionable
ball dresses? If so, they have wondered
! how it is Obtained. Bend down your ear
and you shall near. This swaying of the
draperY which gives new grace to every
movement is said to be effected by
scanned undersbirt. This is not exactly a
| bifurcated garment, neither modern
dress reform skirt, but when you want
TO be exceedingly stylish, and have
| your dTaperieS move il unison to the
step, Just divide the petticoat in two sec
tioGs for short distance, that is to the
knee level, and you will produce the de-
sired effect. The conventional mode of
getting into it will of course have to be
gwen up, but then girls are equal to the
emergency, and Will get into it. If your
evening toilet is black, trim it with chan
tiIly lace, white or black, and if it can
not be bought outlined in fine gilt threads,
the fingers that are so swift in all pretti-
nesses will find a pleasing task in thus
following each flower and design with
this glittering addition, and you will be
! thankful for the suggestion which can be
applied to old founces and make them
fresh and attractive.
This is more than can be said of the
novelties in Jewels. Think of necklace
whose clasp is a huge green frog, while
the several links are formed by longtailed
tadpOIes. pin for the hair is composed
of bunch of cherries, on one of which
slug is resting his trail of slime plainly
marked behind him. A belle of TWO sea-
sons reigning has Just fsd ma e brace
let from which depend in the room of
bangles, half dozen small but accur-
ately fashioned skulls, the trophies of her
cOnqnests. These latter to be a kind
| sCalp-like attachment Ia Apache.
REVOLUTION IN SLEEVES.
| 1t is rumored that we are on the eve of
grand revolution in sleeves. Very pos
sibly it is much ado about nothing.
| Strange tales are aioat concerning
probable leg o. mutton sleeves. Tall,
! slim women, who are anxious to give
their figures an appearance of
breadth, are delighted; short,
| plump ones are in despair.
Doubtless the hopes of the former will
not be fulfilled, end the latter may set
their fears at rest. II we have leg O.
mutton sleeves at all (Which l beg leave
to doubt, in spite of certain sensational
paragraphs here and there it VIII be in
very mitigated form; no whalebone sub
structure, no pillows OF down, no extrav-
agance such as we are familiar with from
old prints. Our dressmakers borrow
ideas from the past, but at the same time
they mold them to suit modern ext
geucies. We have standard-thOugh it
| does not always look like it-and Ger
tain amount Of art is mixed up with our
eccentricties. A little while since we
| heard good deal about Bishop sleeves,
and what did il all come to? A few bod
! ices had sleeves plated from the Shout
ders, and these plsits are caught in at
the wrists. They are very exceptional.
| have not seen q half dozen gowns
in so many hundreds made with
! sleeves Of this kind. The only one can
recall consisted of sort of polOnaise of
| faded violet plush, slit up at the sides so
/ as to show q futed cashmere petticost
! to match and furnished with sleeves CT
! the latter material, that tell around the
arm in soft, loose plaits, caught together
and sewn into short gauntlet cuff of
/ plush. One can imagine the fashionable
| sleeve of the homes of 1920 transformed
/ IN the same way. AS for the pagoda
| sleeves, which also We're to Lave made an
| epoch il dress making, their use is en-
! tirely confined 10 the robe de chambre
and that costly, lackadaisical garment of
/ the super-chic, the tes gown London
Telegraph.
FOUR DRESSES.
Auseful and stylish house dress is of
Cashmere in q new blue shade, trimmed
with csnary-colored ribbon and cream
lace. The short, round skirt falls ia
large, full pleats, and the fiat front is
crossed by draped ribbons. These rib
bons are fastened on each side by two
! loops of the same ribbon. The jacket of
cashmere is cut after tight fitting jacket,
having back and side bodices, with full
ness at the seams below the waist to allow
for pleated fans at the three seams of the
back The front, which has darts, opens
over pleated chemlse of lace crossed by
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